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                                                              Very excited about this event!

 

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                                                     St Ives Book Jam ( 18th May)
  Marta Altes, Jenni Desmond and I have spent the whole day drawing with children and signing our books! It was a lovely experience!





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   This was my donation to the 19th Annual Children's Book Art Silent Auction in New York (to support the free speech rights of young readers).  http://abffesilentauction.wordpress.com/
(a black and white drawing from my first picture book  The New Arrival )





                                                               
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 I am excited to announce my very first authored and illustrated picture book will be published in early spring 2013.
                                         The New Arrival could be pre-ordered on Amazon.

 http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Arrival-The-Vanya-Nastanlieva/dp/1927018137



    

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                          I illustrated a picture book in German,which was published this summer.
                                                   Raccoon Celebrates Birthday on Amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Vanya%20Nastanlieva&search-alias=books-uk

 


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 My illustrations made it to the top twenty entries of  The Book Illustration Competition 2012: The Bloody Chamber,      http://www.houseofillustration.org.uk/


                                                                The Bloody Chamber

                                                                      Puss-in-Boots

                                                               The Company of Wolves

                                                    




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                                                "Tayori - Postcards for Japan"

An exhibition by Children's Book Illustrators and Children's Book Illustration MA students in aid of Teachers
for Japan. You will find more information here:     http://www.postcardsforjapan.co.uk/    
                 
                                                                        My post cards:

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                                               Highly commended at the Macmillan Prize 



One of my picture books 'Mo and Beau' has been highly commended at this years' Macmillan Student Competition. It was just after my birthday so THANK YOU Macmillan for the lovely birthday present!

The exhibition of winners and highly commended entries will be at Foyles Gallery (in the third floor of the bookshop), Charing Cross Road (London). From the 23rd till the 27th of May..


                                           


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                                                            Exhibition in Cambridge


        http://issuu.com/alss/docs/ma_childrens_book_illustration_show_2011


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                                                                 Exhibition in London